From the Facebook page of the Climategate.com operator:
Climategate is closing down
I am very sorry to bring you the news today that climategate.com is shutting down.
It started out as a minor little “hour a day” hobby last December after I purchased the domain name, and it turned into a monster of a site, causing me to work on it every spare hour of my day, every day. I just could no longer justify the time spent with literally pennies to a few dollars in ad revenue coming in a day. I do very much appreciate the generous donations some people made along the way, which helped with the expensive dedicated server the huge traffic required.
I spent many hours the last two weeks trying to find a solution to keeping the site going, either putting it on autopilot somehow or making a decent revenue stream off of it. I just could not do it. Believe me, I really tried.
It wasn’t fair to my family that I had my face buried in my computer all day and night. It felt like I was on a treadmill and could not get off. And I also owed it to my family to earn some income somewhere instead of just working on “the cause” all the time.
So, that’s what happened. Again, I’m really sorry.
Thank you all for everything.”
“This domain name had a web site with 570 posts, 6000 comments, a PR4 rating and Alexa rank of about 70,000, when I parked it on 3/11/10. I started the site in December 09. Just got burned out with such a popular site and had to move on to other things. The entire WordPress site is still on my server and will be saved for a buyer if they are interested.
First $100,000 takes it.
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Heh. He doesn’t know the meaning of hard work.
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A brand used to be the one and only requirement for identification, and beef and horses were the only products it was stamped on. Range cattle mixed with his and her herds and roamed open grazing land, thus needed to be separated by herd owner at round-up time. The brand allowed exactly that to happen. In addition, these animals had just one owner through their lifetime and were then shipped to slaughter.
That is not how it works these days.
Meat animals and beasts of burden may have several owners, sometimes all at once and sometimes serially. In addition, feedlot practices force us to record all owners. Why? So that disease can be traced to its proper source and addressed. Trust me, under current “finishing” practices, ID regulation is probably a necessary evil of a modern world.
In a way, animal ID is a way to track the whereabouts of a national security threat, that of animal disease that can rapidly infiltrate and harm both animals and humans. It isn’t the animal we need to track, it is the disease organism that hitches a ride on the only train in town.
My post on agriculture ID was in response to Gail Combs (08:47:49).
$100,000? Why, that would only take 100 scientists. And a much better return than paperspace advertising.
http://www.knowyourplanetcom/climate-data/
Hosting is so cheap and competitive nowerdays, it doesn’t matter how much traffic you have, I’m sure you could’ve kept it up there, even if you don’t post that often, bloody hell. With all that content and that domain name I would’ve PAID YOU to keep it going!